Features:

  • Simple cassette converter — preserve your retro music collection with our cassette to MP3 Converter, bring alive The mixtapes that hold your most favorite songs and play them on phone, iPod or laptop, cherish childhood voice recordings or any archival audio that might get lost otherwise
  • Multi-functional — Converter vacuum cassette tape player can save converted audio directly to a TF card, can play music right from a TF card or a cassette, and features a bright LCD screen, a built-in speaker with high-quality sound, audio recording option through microphone, and comes with earphones & a TF card reader
  • Easy to use — cassette MP3 Converter comes with a 5V DC USB power cord, a built-in microphone if you don’t want to use an external one, and an easily comprehensible instructions manual that makes it easy to use the device!
  • Modern & sleek — tape to MP3 Converter Walkman features a minimalistic, chic and avant-garde White body with a brushed silver finish elements that make it an ideal choice for carrying along anywhere – just the perfect gift for a vintage aficionado or any loved ones in your life
Very handy way to digitize cassettes, with some caveats

When I was stationed overseas, my girlfriend would send me a cassette every couple of weeks. It was basically an audio diary of her day to day thoughts and events. Decades later we're happily married and I have all the cassettes. I am sure I could have taken an old tape player, ran an audio cord to my computers line-in jack, and recorded the media, but I never got around to doing so. I am very pleased that this deck was able to make the process easy. Without even reading the instructions, this is easy to use. It's a bit different from the classic Walkman style cassette player. There's no beltclip, the battery compartment is sealed, there's a hard power on and off switch, and instead of a viewing port to see the tape turning, there's a small digital display with some buttons. The quality feels pretty good, comparable to an older era of electronics. All of the buttons, including the ones on the front, have a crisp click sound. The readout is simple but easy to understand. You can recharge the battery with a micro-usb cable, you can insert a 3.5 mm cable for audio from another source, and you can insert a MicroSD card to save mp3s you're making. None of these accessories are included, but the only one you actually need is the Micro SD card. I used an old 8 gb card, and it was large enough for 20 tapes and then some. Think of this as two devices that happen to be in the same physical unit. There's the tape player, which plays audio on a speaker and has the old school buttons on top. There's the MP3 recorder and player, which has those little circular buttons on the front. You can use one or the other to play tapes or mp3s, and you need to use both at the same time to record tapes to MP3. To record a tape (the only thing I'm really needing this for), I hit play on top, and record on the front. Simple! It takes the full length of time the tape needs to play in real time. This may be obvious to Gen X and older, but it's worth explaining to those who haven't used these tape decks. The audio quality was fine... old tapes do not sound crystal clear, so bear that in mind. A huge problem when backing up old magnetic floppy disks or cassette tapes is the media can deteriorate and get the read heads on your device damaged. Make sure to use compressed air on the tapes before you record, play them 100% through the first time and record all of it. Use compressed air on the read heads inside the tape player when flipping the tape to the other side, and between tapes. I was able to record 20 tapes doing this, but there's no doubt that there's a risk of old and dirty tapes deteriorating while playing for the first time in years. A lot of this will depend on how well you stored your stuff. But it also depends on how old the tapes are... and therefore the best thing you can do is get something like this device soon and just record everything as soon as possible. The device does function as an MP3 player with the speaker, but this functionality is really only helpful for verifying the quality of the recording, as phones and computers and other devices that do this better are basically ubiquitous. For the niche this fills, it's basically perfect in my opinion.

The little player that could

I found a 55+year old audio cassette that I marked as a family get-together. Tried playing the cassette in 3 old machines I still have, and none of them had the strength to pull the tape past the play head. I thought the obvious reason was loose drive belts, but it turns out the tape, for some reason, had actually expanded slightly in width. Wouldn't have believed it. But this little device did the job, albeit with some struggling here and there. It ended up saving a very nostalgic piece of family history.

Best Solution I Have Found For Converting Cassette Tapes to MP3s

I have never written a product review before and only offer this review in hopes of someone else the frustration I have felt. My projects to convert 100+ 60 minute cassette tapes to MP3s. I read all kinds of reviews and then bought a Hammacher Schlemmer branded converter. It was dead on arrival and exchanged for a new one. That unit lasted about 15 tapes, stopped functioning and fried my thumb drive with a bunch of converted tapes on it. I returned the unit. I bought a DIGITNOW USB Audio Capture Card Grabber for Vinyl Cassette Tapes to Digital MP3 Converter and spent hours learning how to function in GarageBand. Unfortunately there was a sound hum I could not get rid of and had to return that converter. Which brings me to the Bon Venu portable converter. It has worked flawlessly and conveniently through the whole project. It has a rechargeable lithium battery so it really is portable which is more convenient than I had realized it would be as the tapes have to play all the way through as they convert to MP3. The unit may cost more than similar walkman type converters but in my opinion it is definitely worth it. I hope this review saves someone the brain damage I went through trying to get this right!

Failed to Mention

For the Price - OK However, the MP3 are Rendered in MONO. and the Bit Rate is ONLY About 128KB Be Nice if the Vendor Would State that Fact.

Wonderful product...

I purchased this product to be able to transfer the audio of about 100 cassettes into MP3 files that I could preserve well beyond the lifespan of the cassettes. Honestly speaking, the purchase was more than amazing. As a product it served as I would have expected it to. In fact, it proved to be easier than I thought it would be. With the transfer to memory feature, it was a cinch. Just press play and let it do it's thing. As for it's value - I am going to say it was priceless, if only because I was able to recover recordings of loved one that I never knew existed. As most of you reading this will agree, that makes this a priceless purchase!

Good product

Player is easy and simple to use. We play sermons on cassette tape that were taped years ago. Sound quality is good. Have to remember to turn button on side off when done playing or battery will run down. If turned off, battery life is long.

I can finally preserve my cassettes!

I had audio tapes I made of friends and I singing 50 years ago, tapes of our kids performing vocally and on the piano, of my son's high school rock band, and so much more. Thanks to this great tape converter, I've been able to make mp3 files and finally share all these things and preserve them. I highly recommend it. Oh, and it works great to convert to commercial music tapes too!

Best gift

I bought this for my Dad. He has so many cassette tapes and always want a small player so he can listen in bed. He loves this one so much and told me its sound quality is much better than he expects.

Works as advertised

While it's not the most intuitive machine in the world, this did work as advertised, and made MP3s of my cassettes. The rewind and fast forward buttons don't stick, I have to hold them. This is OK, as I don't rewind much while digitizing cassettes. While playing, it makes a weird scraping sound unless I lay it at just the right angle. I did find that the default playback speed wasn't standard, and I had to pitch-correct my recordings after the fact. So, yeah, overall, a few quirks, but it gets the job done.

Very convenient and easy to use

Very very very easy to use and sound is pretty true to the sound quality of the cassette tape.

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